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As teams worldwide embrace cloud-native architectures–replacing waterfall releases with CI/CD, monolith applications with multiple layers of microservices, and singular databases with data meshes–real-time visibility across these layers and their communication patterns becomes critical for management, troubleshooting and assurance.  While there are many visibility tools on the market, they mostly operate on the application and infrastructure layer and […]

For a decade and a half, PCIe connectivity hardware has delivered improved computing performance despite a smaller footprint on motherboards. The PCIe serial bus has helped usher in new advancements in computing applications, from increased capacity drives for in-memory processing to larger-capacity scratch disks and graphics processing units (GPUs) for 3D video and graphics processing. […]

Coldago Research, an alternative independent market research and analysis firm, has released the 2020 edition of its Map for File Storage—a high-level overview and evaluation of the data storage market. This is parallel to what Gartner Research publishes in its Magic Quadrant series. ​This report analyzes the market and its key players since the previous […]

New data from Synergy Research Group released Oct. 29 shows that third-quarter 2020 enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure services totaled nearly $33 billion, up a solid 33% from the third quarter of 2019.  The year-on-year growth rate for Q3 was higher than the 32% growth seen in the previous quarter, demonstrating the health of the […]

It is no surprise that COVID-19 has drastically changed the landscape for B2B marketing and sales, but just how many of these changes will stick around for the long term is still to be seen. If there is one change that will remain after the recovery and have a major impact on how B2B marketers […]

Many CIOs are making key business decisions in a vacuum; think of it as the software-as-a-service management “black box.” CIOs need accurate application engagement data to understand company SaaS usage; effectively provision, adjust and renew application licenses; and forecast future application use patterns.  According to Productiv‘s recent survey of 100 IT executives, The State of SaaS […]

Customer loyalty and brand engagement are two of the most coveted key performance indicators (KPIs) for nearly every senior business leader. But the process of achieving this goal is never easy. The modern, “always-on” customer expects a direct connection to your brand and a unique, curated experience that demonstrates you understand his or her interests.   […]

A limited number of companies allowed their employees to work from home prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the shelter-in-place mandate back in March forced a shift in the workplace experience like none before. The initial remote wave was full of confusion, communication issues and company leaders working rapidly to find the right pieces of […]

The COVID-19 global pandemic forced plans for investing in digital transformation projects to shift toward maintaining business continuity, setting up a remote workforce and ensuring customers’ immediate needs were met. Now that the dust has settled, CIOs are re-evaluating their IT objectives and discerning which projects to pick back up, axe or initiate after learning […]

Cloud data lakes are an increasingly critical complement to enterprises’ data warehouses. Their promise now goes well beyond more traditional notions of centralized storage to also incorporate what’s needed for data ingestion, analytics, data engineering, and artificial intelligence and machine learning initiatives. Get it right, and you unlock higher-value data insights that can steer myriad […]

With the continuing challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, 2020 has been a year of sharp pivots and re-evaluation for enterprise and customer service and support organizations. The advent of pervasive remote, work-from-home workforces particularly has required companies to rethink and begin to revise their support strategies and platforms. Yet, as with so many of the […]

With the rise in remote work, the cloud industry has experienced extraordinary growth, largely due to enterprise businesses transitioning their physical IT infrastructure to the cloud. Along with this rapid expansion into cloud technology comes the need for a workforce with cloud expertise. At the moment, the IT needs are changing faster than the employees […]